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To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

Chris Cleave

I could not stop talking because now I had started my story, it wanted to be finished. We cannot choose where to start and stop. Our stories are the tellers of us.
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Stories Talking Writing
Sad words are just another beauty. A sad story means, this storyteller is alive. The next thing you know something fine will happen to her, something marvelous, and then she will turn around and smile.
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Alive Mean Stories
I’m not happy with just repeating myself.
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Happy Just Not Repairing
This thing with being lovers, it isn’t like being married.
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Being Lovers Married
Still shaking, in the pew, I understood that it isn’t the dead we cry for. We cry for ourselves, and I didn’t deserve my own pity.
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Cry Pity Understood
This is the forked tongue of grief again. It whispers in one ear: return to what you once loved best, and in the other ear it whispers, move on.
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Ears Grief Moving
I’m really interested in people’s decisions.
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Decision Interested People
Horror in your country is something you take a dose of to remind yourself that you are not suffering from it.
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Country Horror Suffering
We were exiles from reality that summer. We were refugees from ourselves.
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Reality Refugee Summer
I’m a much better writer for being a father.
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Being Better Father Much
And thus love makes fools of us all.
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Fool Love Make Thus
Psychiatry in this place is like serving an in-flight meal in the middle of a plane crash. If I wanted to make you well, as a doctor, I should be giving you a parachute, not a cheese-and-pickle sandwich.
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Doctors Giving Pickles
I planned how I would kill myself in the time of Churchill (stand under bombs), Victoria (throw myself under a horse), and Henry the Eighth (marry Henry the Eighth)- Little Bee
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Bombs Horse Littles
Sometimes we don’t notice that someone is being brave, because they are only doing something that seems quite easy for us.
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Brave Easy Sometimes
If I could not smile, I think my situation would be even more serious.
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Serious Smile Thinking
I think, in common with a lot of novelists, I wasn’t the most athletic guy at school.
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Guy School Thinking

To be well in your mind you have first to be free.

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